Lok Gathbandhan Party flays NDA govt for PNB looter Mehul Choksi’s Antiguan citizenship

Urban Mirror Correspondent
New Delhi, August 04:  Criticising the NDA government for failing to nab looters of PNB Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi, the Lok Gathbandhan Party (LGP) today said that complicity of the various agencies of the Indian government is clear in providing clearance to Choksi for his Antiguan citizenship. The LGP said the police and SEBI clearance for the purpose of citizenship to the fugitive Mehul Choksi was not possible without involvement at the top level.
The spokesman of the party said here on Saturday that charges and counter charges being traded between Indian and Antiguan agencies over the issue are meaningless as both sides were involved in helping the scamster in getting the citizenship of a country which even doesnot have extradition treaty with India. The spokesman said the whole criminal conspiracy was done in a planned way to assist the PNB plunderer to escape the country. The spokesman said even after eight months of registration of the case against Modi and Choksi, the investigating agencies have failed to make any breakthrough in nabbing them, which indicated their poor and haphazard functioning. The spokesman said it appeared that efforts are more towards protecting them than bringing them back to country for criminal trial.
The spokesman said recent report also indicated how Punjab bank officers flouted norms to help the two scamsters that led to loot of Rs 14000 crore from the bank. The spokesman said that with extremely slow pace in investigation it would be difficult to bring back these criminals to India and ensure a strict punishment. The spokesman said that both the criminals have made it clear to the CBI that they will not return to India.
The spokesman said it is strange that despite Interpol alert both fugitives are roaming around the world and doing business which indicated that the CBI and enforcement directorate are either helpless or politically under pressure to go slow in the case to fade the issue from the memory of the people, as has happened in the past in such corruption issues. The spokesman said the NDA government has passed the Fugitive Economic Offenders Bill to empower probe agencies but it has not helped in any way. The spokesman said the law is more a political propaganda than a tool for action against PNB scam accused. The spokesman also criticized the NDA government for failing to improve functioning in the public sector banks which has led to PNB scandal. The spokesman said that the banking sector has been facing dire crisis because of its massive fraudulent activities. The spokesman said that while the non-performing assets (NPAs) have virtually pushed the PSBs of the brink of disaster, such frauds have added more woes to the sector.  The spokesman said the fraud has amply exposed weaknesses in the bank’s security system and maintenance of its records.
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